Life in Progress traveled to Festival Castell de Peralada. This is a festival in a beautiful castle in a village on the outskirts of Girona. Here, Life in Progress was performed at the tours last outside venue to a sold out audience. Despite some rain delaying things the resilient audience were incredibly enthusiastic and as always the show was met with a standing ovation.

Pictured above are Brigel and Emanuela, two of the dancers, warming up as the three musicians sound check and give them a beat to move to.

Russell Maliphant Company have been in their studio working on the upcoming show Conceal | Reveal: an evening of three works.

Pictured above hard at work choreographing and composing Conceal | Reveal are Mukul the composer, Russell Maliphant, and Dana Fouras. The show will include a revival of Broken Fall, a new solo for former Royal Ballet Dancer Dana Fouras, as well as a brand new quintet.

Conceal | Reveal will celebrate the 20 year collaboration between Russell Maliphant and lighting designer Michael Hulls and premieres on 2 October 2015 at DanceEast, Ipswich.

If you want to find out more click here.

Sidi Larbi’s m¡longa was in Stuttgart last week where it was performed at Theaterhaus Stuttgart as part of Tanzfestival Colour.

The show went down incredibly well and the audience quite literally wouldn’t stop clapping.

If you’ve seen the show you may well recognise some of the faces pictured above from the stage. But also in this photo the dancers are joined by some of m¡longa’s hard-working technicians and one of our producers and a familiar face on the blog, Sandra.

Another week and another festival for the jam-packed Life in Progress schedule. This week the show was at Les Nuìts de Fourvière – a two month long theatre, dance, music, and cinema festival that takes place in the Gallo-Roman outdoor theatres of Fourvière.

Life in Progress was performed in the Grand Theatre, pictured above before the sun started to set and the show began. And what an atmospheric location! The audience as always were captivated and threw the cushions they’d been sat on at the stage at the end – a French custom way of clapping, or so they said.

Video credit: Phillip Burton

Life In Progress was performed three times at Chekhov International Theatre Festival in Moscow this week. The show was on at the Moscow State Academic Mossovet Theatre with a packed audience each night consisting of just under nine hundred people. The captivated audience broke out into a wild applause at the end, which was too much for some with one overzealous audience member running on stage, planting a kiss on Sylvie before disappearing into the night!

Above is the team: dancers, musicians, technicians, and producers having a spot of lunch with the UK ambassador in Russia at the Kremlin.

This week m¡longa is on the stage of The Norwegian Opera House for six performances. The shows have been met by a fantastic response – culminating in all of the audience up on their feet for a standing ovation.

And what a beautiful theatre for a beautiful show: The cast and crew were able to wade through the Fjord and all the way up the slopping roof before delivering the best alternative take on tango that exists.

Next up for m¡longa: Stuttgart.

Sadler’s Wells’ National Youth Dance Company, under the direction of Guest Artistic Director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui will begin their national UK tour this weekend. Their first stop is mac in Birmingham. The show, Frame[d] is comprised of moments from Cherkaoui’s established catalogue of work including Babel(words) co-choreographed with Damien Jalet, Puz/zle, and Tezuka. However, Frame[d] also incorporates the young dancers’ new ideas and fresh material as well as featuring Antony Gormley’s fabulous steel box sculptures.

Also at mac this Saturday will be an extra Experience Workshop. So if you’re lucky enough to be in Birmingham this weekend definitely don’t miss out on this great opportunity to find out more about the company.

This week m¡longa had its one hundredth performance. This took place at no better location than the Sadler’s Wells stage itself.

Since its premiere m¡longa has visited fifteen different countries at thirty-two different venues, across four different continents. Including New York City Centre, Sydney Opera House, and Theatre du Jorat, in the Swiss Alps where it premiered.

But don’t worry m¡longa is still going strong and it’s tour continues – next stop Stuttgart/Oslo. Keep checking the blog to find out what goes down there.

Photo credit: Andrew Lang

Our very own Sandra Castell-Garcia was behind the mike live on the airwaves on Friday talking all things m¡longa in the run up to the performances at Sadler’s Wells this week. Speaking in her native Spanish, she discussed the show with the presenter.

Want to listen to the show? Click here.

And if you can’t speak Spanish fear not – all you need to know is that as a show, m¡longa is muy muy bien!

This week Life In Progress was in Athens as part of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2015. Situated right next to the Acropolis in the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, an outdoor amphitheatre pictured above, it was hard to imagine a more picturesque spot for the Greek goodbye (or αντίo) to Sylvie.

Over nine thousand people were enchanted by the spell binding show causing an atmosphere so electric it rivalled Zeus’ own lightning bolt.

This picture was taken by Nick Rundall the shows sound engineer and the production manager Andy Downie is in the left corner preparing everything for a perfect performance.